Regional Hits of 1963

The standard page for 1963 lists the biggest hit songs across the
whole World. This page compares that with the top 20 biggest hits of the year in
North America and Europe. The region index
explains how these results were generated and
the long term trends.

"She Loves You" was the best-selling UK single of 1963, spending 33 weeks onchart, 18 of them in the Top 3, and 6 at No.1 (split between two stints) and
selling 1.9 million copies (making it the best-selling single in the UK in the
1960s) and YET somehow it does manage to make the Top 20 for Europe in 1963,
but "Do You Love Me?" by The Tremeloes does... Yes, I know that the UK isn't
"Europe", but I'm sure "She Loves You" was selling well in Ireland and
Scandanavia at least, as well as the UK, even if the other countries didn't
wake up to Beatlemania until 1964. I find your chart a little hard to believe!

"She Loves You" did not spend 33 weeks in the charts in 1963, it spent more
like 16 weeks. The remaining 17 weeks it was in the UK charts were during
1964. So which year should the song be listed under?

"She Loves You" was a hit in 1963 in the UK, Canada, Norway, Australia, New
Zealand and South Africa, it was a hit in 1964 in the USA, Belgium, Brazil,
Germany and Italy. It was a hit in many different US charts in
1964 so that means that the record has been assigned to 1964.